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I Like The Challenge Of Trying Different Things And Wondering Whether It's Going To Work Or Whether I'm Going To Fall Flat On My Face.
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I Like The Challenge

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I Like The Challenge Of Trying Different Things And Wondering Whether It's Going To Work Or Whether I'm Going To Fall Flat On My Face.

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Games
Corners
My Beef Was With Essentially Being A Product. I Didn't Want To Be A Product, So I Tried To Get Fired, But They Didn't Fire Me, Which Was Weird.
Fire
Beef
Want
I Condition Myself To Believe That Once The Scene Is Done, Once The Movie Is Done, My Job Is Done, And Whatever Happens After That Is None Of My Business.
Jobs
Believe
Done
Obviously, Technology Is Moving And Reshaping Itself, Radically, Every Day. We're All Capable Of Answering That Question Within Ourselves. Would You Do It For The Person That You Love? Would You Be Married To A Hard Drive, Essentially?
Moving
Technology
Married
Barrie And The Wonderful Characters He Created, Lewis Carroll, Even French Literature, Like Baudelaire Or Over In The States, Poe, You Open Those Books, You Open The Flowers Of Evil And Begin To Read. If It Were Written Today, You'd Be Absolutely Stupefied By The Work. It's This Incredible Period Where The Work Is Timeless, Ageless. So Yeah, I Just Love All Those Guys. It's My Deep Passion In Those Great 19th Century Writers.
Flower
Book
Character
For Me, Ambition Has Become A Dirty Word. I Prefer Hunger. To Be Hungry- Great. To Have Hopes, Dreams- Great.
Dream
Dirty
Ambition
Laugh As Much As You Breathe And Love As Long As You Live.
Love
Inspirational
Life
My Self-image It Still Isn't That Alright. No Matter How Famous I Am, No Matter How Many People Go To See My Movies, I Still Have The Idea That I'm That Pale No-hoper That I Used To Be. A Pale No-hoper That Happens To Be A Little Lucky Now. Tomorrow It'll Be All Over, Then I'll Have To Go Back To Selling Pens Again.
Self
Ideas
People
The Ultimate For Me Would Be To Do A Feature That Didn't Require Any Narrative Structure.
Narrative Structure
Would Be
Ultimate
I Have Toyed With The Idea Of Playing It Straight. But, Like I Say, I Really Believe We Are All Out Of Our Minds At Some Level.
Believe
Ideas
Mind
I Just Happen To Be A Sucker For Humor. So Anywhere I Can Sneak In Something That I Find Potentially Interesting Or Funny I Do It As Much As I Can Get Away With.
Sneak In
Interesting
Get Away
Marlon Brando Was The Absolute Opposite Of Everything They Told Me He Was Going To Be, Which Is That He Was A Testy Guy Who Wants To Know That He's In Control Of Everything. But, That's Not Who Marlon Was. No Matter What He Did, The Most Important Thing On His Mind Was Justice.
Opposites
Justice
Guy
It Really Depends On What The Screenplay Is Asking Of You, And What Your Responsibility Is To That Character. You Have The Author's Intent To Deal With, You Have The Filmmaker's Vision, And Then You Have Your Own Wants, Desires And Needs For The Character. It's Collaborative. But I Knew, Right Off The Bat, That There Was No Way To Go Into Some Sort Of Pink-haired, Clown-nosed Character With Ronald Mcdonald Shoes.
Character
Responsibility
Shoes
I Was Always A Fan Of The Great Old Spaghetti Westerns, The Sergio Leone Films. But The One That Always Sticks With Me, That I Just Thought Was Brilliant And Perfect Is "cat Ballou." Lee Marvin In "cat Ballou."
Cat
Perfect
Fans
I'm A Dumb-ass, And I Poisoned Myself For Years. Now I Understand Things Better.
Years
Alcohol
Drug
If There Is Any Message To My Work, It Is Ultimately That It's Ok To Be Different.
Different
Messages
Inspirational Celebrity
I'm Attracted To The Extreme Light And The Extreme Dark. I'm Interested In The Human Condition And What Makes People Tick. I'm Interested In The Things People Try To Hide.
Life
Dark
Light
School's A Weird Thing. I'm Not Sure It Works.
School
Weird Things
Not Sure
My Children's Favorite, And It's Funny Because They've Seen It But They Have A Difficult Time Watching It Because It's Their Dad And They Make That Connection, But Edward Scissorhands Is By Far My Kids' Favorite. They Just Connect With The Character, And They See Their Dad Feeling That Isolation, That Loneliness. He's A Tragic Character, So I Think It's Hard For Them. They Bawl.
Children
Dad
Loneliness
This Is A Rumour-filled Society And If People Want To Sit Around And Talk About Whom I've Dated, Then I'd Say They Have A Lot Of Spare Time And Should Consider Other Topics... Or Masturbation.
People
Want
Topics
I Don’t Think Of Myself As Being A Celebrity, It’s Too Mortifying. I Have A Hard Time Watching Myself On Screen And It’s Getting Worse. I Can’t Tell Whether My Work Is Good Or Not.
Hard Times
Thinking
Screens
If You Love Two People At The Same Time, Choose The Second. Because If You Really Loved The First One, You Wouldn't Have Fallen For The Second.
Love
Relationship
Pregnancy
There Are These Mythic Unicorn-y Tales Of Method Acting, But Marlon [brando] Wanted To Have A Good Time.
Acting
Unicorn
Good Times
I Love The Idea Of Changing My Look. I Think One Owes It To The Audience, To Go Out There And Give Them Something Different Each Time, So As Not To Bore Them To Death.
Thinking
Ideas
Giving
When I'm At Our House In France I Totally Cut Myself Off From The Rest Of The World. I Never Have To Listen To Phones Ringing And That's Because - And Vanessa Would Confirm This - Phones Are Banned From The House. We Have A Beautiful Life And I Feel That Spending Time In France Has Just Calmed Me Down And Made Me Stop Worrying About Things Which Aren't Really Important.
Funny
Beautiful
Cutting
My Body Is A Journal In A Way. It's Like What Sailors Used To Do, Where Every Tattoo Meant Something, A Specific Time In Your Life When You Make A Mark On Yourself, Whether You Do It Yourself With A Knife Or With A Professional Tattoo Artist.
Tattoo
Self Harm
Artist
As A Teenager I Was So Insecure. I Was The Type Of Guy That Never Fitted In Because He Never Dared To Choose. I Was Convinced I Had Absolutely No Talent At All. For Nothing. And That Thought Took Away All My Ambition, Too.
Inspirational
Teenager
Ambition
I Just Watched Cartoons For Three Years, And That Had A Strong Affect On Me.
Strong
Years
Cartoon
When You Take On The Idea Of Playing Someone Like Jimmy Bulger, It's A Radically Different Process Because You're Going Into Make-up. The Only Way You Can Do It Is To Come Out Of Make-up Looking Like The Guy. If You Don't Look Like The Guy, It's Going To Bug You, All Day.
Ideas
Guy
Different
I Guess I'm Attracted To These Off Beat Roles Because My Life Has Been A Bit Abnormal. The Only Thing I Have A Problem With Is Being Labeled.
Roles
Abnormal
Problem
Yeah, In Every Film That I've Been Lucky Enough To Do With Tim, There's Always Some Form Of Torture, And The Nails Were Tim's Idea. They Were The Length Of The Fingers And Stuff, But It Was Okay Because I Had A Troop Of People Who Would Help Me Go To The Bathroom. They Had To Have Treatment Afterwards But They're Okay Now. That Is True.
Ideas
People
Nails
Everything Here Is Edible; Even I'm Edible. But That, Dear Children, Is Cannibalism, And Is In Fact Frowned Upon In Most Societies.
Children
Cannibalism
Facts
Other Kids Pack Lunch
Kids
Lunch
Packs
The Problem Is That Everybody Treats Teenagers Like They're Stupid.
Teenager
Stupid
Problem
Kids Accept A Lot More, And They Buy It, Because They're Free.
Kids
Accepting
I've Weaned Myself Down To About, On A Great Day, On A Really Great Day, Three Cigarettes. For A Nicotine Junkie The Essential Cigs Are Three: The First-of-the-day Cigarette Smoked After Lunch, The After-dinner Cigarette And Then The One Taken Whenever You Want - The Luxury-wild-card Smoke. It Used To Be Quite A Bit More. It Used To Be, I'd Smoke The Table. I'd Smoke The Patch. I'd Smoke The Gum. So I Feel Good About It.
Taken
Lunch
Luxury
If You Had To Chose One Half Of Your Son, Which One Would It Be?" What Kind Of A Question Is That?!" No Need To Snap. It Was Just A Question.
Son
Needs
Half
As Soon As We Fall In Love And We Realise We've Met The One The Rest Of Our Lives Can't Come Soon Enough. It's Not Like You're In A Rush To Get To The Finish Line, You're In A Rush To Feel And Experience Everything And Then Do It All Again.
Falling In Love
Romantic Love
Soon Enough
Things Go Wrong For Me, All The Time, With Technology. I'm Not Familiar Enough With It, And I'm Too Old School A Brain To Be Able To Figure It Out. I'm Dumb. Anything That I Have To Attack With My Thumbs, For Any Period Of Time, Makes Me Feel Stupid. So, I Try To Avoid It, As Much As Possible, To Protect My Thumbs.
Stupid
School
Technology
As A Child, I Certainly Had A Fascination With Monsters And Vampires.
Children
Vampire
Monsters
One Thing That's Been A Great, Uplifting Experience Through All This Is, Since The First "pirates" [movie], The People Who've Gone To See The Films, The Audience Members. You Meet People On The Street - Whether They're 5, 25, 65 Or 85 - They've All Had The Same Experience, And They've All Enjoyed It. So That's What Keeps Me Moving Forward In This Crazy Process.
Uplifting
Crazy
Moving
Thank God I Never Hooked On Anything. I Never Had A Monkey On My Back. I Just Wanted To Self-medicate, To Numb Myself Through Liquor. It's How I Dealt With Life, Reality, Stress, Change, Sadness, Memories. The List Goes On. I Was Really Trying To Feel Nothing.
Memories
Stress
Sadness
And Then, 'why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk?' Those Things Just Became So Important To The Character. You Realize That The More You Read It, If I Read The Book Again Today, I'd Find 100 Other Things That I Missed Last Time. It's A Constantly Changing Book.
Book
Writing
Character
I Don't Like Watching Myself In The Movies Because I Don't Like Being Aware Of The Product. I Like The Process. I Enjoy That.
Process
Enjoy
Products
People Cry, Not Because They're Weak. It's Because They've Been Strong For Too Long.
Inspirational
Sad
Depressing
When Faced With Two Choices Simply Toss A Coin. It Works Not Because It Settles The Question For You, But Because In That Brief Moment When The Coin Is In The Air, You Suddenly Know What You Are Hoping For. If You Love Two People At The Same Time, Choose The Second One, Because If You Really Loved The First One You Wouldn't Have Fallen For The Second.
Air
Two
People
I Was Ecstatic They Re-named 'french Fries' As 'freedom Fries'. Grown Men And Women In Positions Of Power In The U.s. Government Showing Themselves As Idiots.
Men
Position Of Power
Ecstatic Love
If I Can Avoid The Mirror When I Brush My Teeth In The Morning, I Will. I Find Security And Safety In The Most Profound Degree Of Ignorance. If You Can Just Stay Ignorant Of Almost Everything You'll Be Ok. It's Fine To Stay Informed And Look At Things, But To Judge Things Will Bog You Down.
Morning
Ignorance
Mirrors
France And The Whole Of Europe Have A Great Culture And An Amazing History. Most Important Thing, Though, Is That People There Know How To Live! In America They've Forgotten All About It. I'm Afraid That The American Culture Is A Disaster.
Europe
America
People
With Every Character You Play, As These Guys Will Tell You, There's A Part Of You Goes Into That In Terms Of The Ingredients Of Making This Stew. There's Most Definitely A Part Of Me In Captain Jack And Now, Fortunately Or Unfortunately, There's A Great Part Of Captain Jack In Me As Well. Basically, I Can't Shake Him. He Won't Leave Me Alone. He Just Sort Of Keeps Showing Up At Odd Times.
Character
Play
Guy
You Grow Up A Bit Damaged Or Broken Then You Have Some Success But You Don't Know How To Feel Good About The Work You're Doing Or The Life You're Leading.
Growing Up
Broken
Feel Good
You Can't Plan The Kind Of Deep Love That Results In Children. Fatherhood Was Not A Conscious Decision. It Was Part Of The Wonderful Ride I Was On. All The Math Finally Worked.
Children
Math
Destiny
I'm All For Whatever It Takes To Get Wherever You Need To Get With A Character, As Long As You Don't Wipe It On Me.
Character
Long
Wipe
It's A Great Honor That Something That You Took Part In Creating Becomes This Forever Object.
Creating
Forever
Honor
I Think, For Me As An Actor, If You Get To A Place Where You're Satisfied, You're Happy With It, Then You're Dead. It's Over. You're Not Hungry Anymore. You Won't Try Things Anymore.
Thinking
Over You
Trying
If They Let Me Choose Between You And The Dog, I'll Choose The Dog.
Dog
Let Me
Ifs
You Do The Work And You Want People To See It; But, Um While I'm Doing The Work, The Result Doesn't Matter At All To Me. Ultimately, I Don't, I Don't Care Whether The Film Is - You Know - Some Big Giant Box-office Bonanza And I Don't Care If Its A Complete Flop. To Me, When A Film Gets Made And It's Actually Finished It's A Success. They're All A Success In Their Own Way.
People
Office
Giants
My Kids, They're My Energy, My Soul, And My Nicest Friend.
Kids
Soul
Energy
And It Hurts So Much To Want Something You Can't Have.
Hurt
Want Something
Want
If You Catch Me Saying 'i Am A Serious Actor,' I Beg You To Slap Me.
Funny
Acting
Actors
Puberty Was Very Vague. I Literally Locked Myself In A Room And Played Guitar.
Inspirational
Guitar
Rooms
If You Fall In Love With 2 People At Once Choose The Second One Because If You Truly Loved The First One You Never Would Have Fell In Love With The Second One
Spiritual
Falling In Love
People
I'm Shy, Paranoid, Whatever Word You Want To Use. I Hate Fame. I've Done Everything I Can To Avoid It.
Hate
Shy
Use
People Say I Make Strange Choices, But They're Not Strange For Me. My Sickness Is That I'm Fascinated By Human Behavior, By What's Underneath The Surface, By The Worlds Inside People.
Inspirational
People
Choices
I'm Not 'blockbuster Boy.' I Never Wanted To Be. I Wasn't Looking For That.
Boys
Wanted
Blockbuster
You Always Miss Them [characters You've Played] Once You've Walked Away, But Part Of Them Always Stays With You Too.
Character
Missing
I Realized That It Was Great To Have A Job, But It Didn't Have Anything Remotely To Do With What I Was Striving For, So Why Was I Doing It?
Jobs
Strive
I Realized
I Try To Stay In A Constant State Of Confusion Just Because Of The Expression It Leaves On My Face.
Funny
Confused
Expression
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